I accidentally found an essay written by my son when he was in sixth grade in the bookcase, titled "Charming Butterfly Valley". The beautiful and wonderful scenery in the article attracted me, and made me want to visit the charming places described by my son. So, in March, when the oleander flowers were blooming all over the city, I drove to Yalong Bay alone, specifically to see Butterfly Valley.
Butterfly Valley is located in the tropical rainforest area. When you enter the scenic spot, you will feel the fragrance of the tough leaves of the trees and the tender flowers. Natural shrubs such as cattail wood, black ink, albizia julibrissin, amla emblica, iron knife wood, chicken tree, Hainan lanren... they grow in groups or scattered, and among you there is me and among me you are stubborn and upward. The new vines of Chicken Spatholobus and Dragon Crossing River are as strong as dragons and pythons climbing rocks and lingering in the stream. The graceful phoenix tail bamboo, traveler banana, and fishtail sunflower are swaying gracefully and verdantly, like poetry and song. There are also jade-leaf golden flowers, small-leaf dragon boat flowers, strelitzia reginae and other exotic flowers and plants, high or low, bright and tender, coquettish and fragrant, filling the whole valley...
When you walk into the quiet path, you will feel the strange stone stream. The romance of Juanxiu Bridge. Winding along both sides of the creek in Butterfly Valley, you will see many strange rocks, which are round, thin, translucent, oddly naughty, and delicate, with different styles. Some are like rhinos lying in the water, some are like frogs in the valley, and some are like monkey heads. Looking at the moon, some are like fish leaping into the dragon pond, vivid and ethereal and lovely. A small stream meanders around the rocks and through the forest from the bottom of the valley. It is the dry season, and the water is gurgling and crystal clear. Sometimes it is a quiet pool, sometimes it is like silk, sometimes it is like a trickle, and you can't see the "little stream" written by my son. "The fish are swimming back and forth, very leisurely and contented" scene, but you can still see the pupae and eggs of water creatures floating, and groups of tadpoles wandering back and forth freely...
Spring has passed, summer is coming one after another, and the harvest is coming. The water season is coming. After the two seasons of autumn and winter, the vitality contained in the earth will burst out all over the mountains and plains in spring and summer, completing a cycle of life journey. Now we can see the prosperous scene of new shoots and everything is renewed, and soon we will hear the magnificent music of fish swimming in the shallow bottom and frogs croaking in the deep valley. At that time, you will marvel at the magical charm of nature, and you will truly and naturally perceive the true meaning of life in the changing seasons. The wooden bridge suspended by ropes in the canyon is connected to the rock slabs and holds the boulders. Walking on the bridge, your mind is free of dust and thoughts, and it is empty and dreamlike. The artificial pavilions, stone paths, and stone benches built by the bridge for tourists to rest in the shade complement each other and bring you into a charming fairy tale-like situation.
When you walk into the valley, you will see a colorful world of butterflies. In order to focus the visitors' vision, the managers ingeniously used shading fiber frames to build a huge butterfly house, about several hundred meters long, high above the bushes. Butterflies of various species gather in the house. There are purple-black and purple-spotted butterflies with sparse spots, and golden-spotted butterflies; there are purple-colored wings with double "eyes"; there are clouded leopard butterflies with yellow and black wings that look like leopards; they have pink wings. The red-winged pink butterfly with clear stripes, the yellow pink butterfly with yellow and orange wings, the orange pink butterfly, the red-striped green swallowtail butterfly with thorn-like wings and tail, black, purple, red and green, and the only one in Hainan in the country with wings like Butterfly fairies and purple pecked butterflies that look like pink... Watching these countless butterflies flying all over the garden, like dancing flowers, with their moving fragrance, is intoxicating, mind-blowing, and unforgettable!
There is a tragic and heroic legend in Butterfly Valley. According to legend, 65 million years ago, the Phoenix bird, the king of birds that dominates the earth, died in the fire with a long cry in order to save the weak creatures that were on the verge of extinction due to the deterioration of the natural environment. At this time, strong winds were blowing and flames were burning. The beautiful colorful feathers of the phoenix were flying in the sky. The raging fire engulfed the whole body of the phoenix. Then there was lightning and thunder, and the fire was soaring into the sky. The phoenix turned into a wisp of light smoke and rose up in the bright light. And the colorful feathers in the air fell one after another. They fell down the canyon, the stream bank, and the branches. The insects all over the mountain were instantly transformed into butterflies, red, yellow, green, white and purple, dancing gracefully, decorating the entire canyon with colorful...
The legend of Butterfly Valley has similarities with the myth and legend of "Phoenix Nirvana". The legendary phoenix is ??the messenger of happiness in the world. Every five hundred years, it has to bear all the unhappiness and hatred accumulated in the world, throw itself into the raging fire and burn itself, exchanging life and beauty for peace and happiness in the world. After the body was bathed in fire and suffered tremendous pain, it was able to be reborn in a better body. This myth and legend was explained in the "Tonggu No. 17" of the famous Buddhist monk, scholar, and theorist Master Seng Zhao in the Eastern Jin Dynasty in China: "The past and the present are connected. The beginning and the end are the same. Don't understand it." And two. The great unity is called nirvana. "It means that it is the same throughout the ages. There is no difference between the beginning and the end. The awe-inspiring emptiness and self are all in one body, which is nirvana. Buddhism uses this to imply the highest ideal state that Buddhism practice should achieve.
Chinese literary giant Guo Moruo also quoted the myth and legend of "Phoenix Nirvana" in his poem "Phoenix Nirvana", writing: "Universe, universe, I will work hard to curse you: your thick blood Your filthy casino! Your prison filled with sorrow! Your hell filled with howling ghosts! Why do you exist like a waterfall for five hundred years? . Five hundred years of tears are as dripping as a candle. Endless tears, endless filth, unquenchable passion, unshakable humiliation, where will we rest in this ethereal life?… …The fire is blazing. The fragrance is coming. The time has come.
Everything outside the body, everything within the body! Everything! Please! Please!" With such a tragic and passionate poem, it means that the evil old world will be completely burned in the raging fire, and the new world will undergo the baptism of blood and fire. The end is coming soon.
The realistic meaning of the myth and legend of "Phoenix Nirvana" is that the phoenix experienced the torment of fire and the painful test, was reborn, and achieved sublimation in the rebirth, which means that it is not afraid of pain, The persistent spirit of never looking back, continuous pursuit, and self-improvement. The legend of Butterfly Valley evokes the desire of mankind to consciously protect the environment for its own survival and development through the spirit of self-sacrifice of "Phoenix Nirvana", and its meaning is far-reaching. , natural selection, survival of the fittest. The evolution of the earth from dinosaurs to phoenixes to human beings is a wake-up call to life all the time. We must cherish the living environment and maintain ecological balance. We must not hunt indiscriminately or chop indiscriminately. Indiscriminate logging leads to human self-destruction.
If human beings want to protect themselves, they must constantly improve their living environment to achieve the goal of sustainable development. We must not repeat the tragic demise of the dinosaurs or the tragic rebirth of the phoenix!
The legends of Butterfly Valley are all thought-provoking and thought-provoking...